Dale Steyn

“With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.”

“I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.”

“I love winning. Maybe it's more that I hate losing?”

“Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.”

“When you're playing against a team like India you're always going to struggle, especially as they bat all the way down the order to No. 9 and 10.”

“I've never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.”

“I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.”

“I would love to win a trophy for South Africa in white ball cricket.”

“I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.”

“In South Africa, you can get away sometimes because of the bounce. You may get away with full wide balls. In India, it does not bounce and finds the middle of the bat and goes flying to point or extra cover for four.”

“In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.”

“The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.”

“When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.”

“You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.”

“I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.”

“If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.”

“In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.”

“I love playing cricket. I wake up every morning and I can't see myself doing anything else.”

“I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.”

“It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, play Big Bash. Unfortunately representing the Proteas for the bulk of my career over Christmas time we've always got Test matches on, the Boxing Day and New Year's Test matches. So I haven't been available.”